Yehuda Glick won in court against the police.
Israel's Foreign Minister hails NY court decision for Israeli victims of terror against Palestinian Arab terrorists.
The problem with liars is that you never know when they are telling the truth.
And what would the State Prosecutor say if The Jewish Press wrote "settlers have a right to hurl rocks at Arabs?"
An Israeli Supreme Court judge rejected on Tuesday an appeal by women to allow Israeli officials outside of the country to cast their votes in the Knesset elections in March on a day other than Purim. Justice Salim Jourban ruled that the Knesset knew the law, or should have known the law, that sets the […]
The man who gunned down Yehuda Glick can thank his victim for living and keeping the attacker’s home intact.
The US says it is "deeply troubled" by PA leader Mahmoud Abbas signing the Rome Statute to join ICC.
Gross jailed for his work on USAid project.
Since Glick’s appearance would arouse Muslim anger, it is Glick and not the rioters who are kept off the holy site.
Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson has resigned from the police force.
U.S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg had heart surgery on Wednesday, Nov. 26.
The Beit Din was shocked when an audio tape exposed how a well-known Kabbalist convinced at least one married woman to have an affair with him.
Zivotofsky should have Israel on his passport and the Executive branch should retain authority over foreign policy. Here's how:
By Rachel Levy
Columnist quotes Obama aide insulting Netanyahu, citing "crisis" in US-Israel relations.
By JTA
Today’s hijab ban could be tomorrow’s kippa ban.
After 2 days of deliberation by a jury, following a 5 week trial, and 10 years of legal battles, Jordan's Arab Bank has been found guilty of helping Hamas financially.
Abdel Rahman Zuabi (Zoabi), the first Israeli-Arab to be appointed as a Supreme Court Justice, died on Sunday at age 82.
Strike led to Knesset proposal to force-feed prisoners.
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal submitted by six terrorists release in the Gilad Shalit deal. The state is asking for legal sanction to re-arrest the killers and to jail them for the rest of their sentences. Chief Justice Asher Grunis said the appeal would be correctly submitted to the Haifa District Court, but did […]
Labor MK Cabel: 'Don't care' whether strikers die, but could cause 'hasbara' problem
By Shalom Bear
A Tel Aviv family court was forced to choose: would the child become listed as a Mamzer or would the child grow up financially unsupported and not know who his real father is?
A judge denied a request by Ehud Olmert, to fly overseas for a business meeting.
By JTA
Kosher meals for prisoners cost nearly four times the cost of non-kosher meals; appeal also covers prisoner beard length
A federal judge instructed the IRS to respond to Z STREET's claim of political discrimination.
By Shalom Bear
Israel is preparing dozens of claims against senior officials of the Palestinian Authority for participating in terror attacks.
By JTA
antiquities loaned to museum could not be seized for victims’ families because owners unknown
By JTA
A Canadian judge has ordered child protection officials to use law enforcement agencies to apprehend 14 children in the haredi Orthodox sect Lev Tahor after most of them fled the country. On Wednesday, the judge was supposed to hear an appeal of an earlier ruling to seize the children and return them to Quebec to […]
Free speech rights of UC Irvine Muslim students did not trump Amb. Michael Oren's right to speak.
By JTA
A Los Angeles Jewish cemetery accused of dumping remains to make room for new interments has settled a 25,000-person class action lawsuit. Eden Memorial Park in Missions Hills, Calif., agreed to a settlement worth about $80.5 million, the Los Angeles Jewish Journal reported, citing documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Feb. 27. The […]
By JTA
A senior Chabad rabbi in Australia who was accused of raping a student inside a synagogue in the 1970s will not be charged. Detectives in Melbourne confirmed Friday that they have closed an investigation into Rabbi Avrohom Glick, who was then deputy principal of Yeshivah College in Melbourne. Rabbi Glick, 67, vehemently denied allegations that […]
Professionals and lay leaders from around the world will gather in Jerusalem for a historic 3-day conference on child abuse.
Did the IRS maliciously audit a pro-Israel non-profit because it supported Jews beyond the Green Line?
Journalist Rafael Epstein claims Zygier revealed intelligence about operations he had been involved in to an Iranian businessman.
By Joe Levin
Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto allegedly ordered a New York City police officer to arrest his top aide’s business rival.
The trial of Dzokhar Tsarnaev will begin on Nov. 3, 2014, the federal judge ruled on Wednesday.
By David Morris
The new election date of March 11 was announced by the Ministry of Interior.
By JTA
Allen said he will not address the accusations again.
By JTA
Natan Sharansky joined the parents and spouses of political prisoners in asking the U.S. Congress to speak of their loved ones during meetings with foreign officials. Sharansky, imprisoned by the Soviets for nine years because of his activism on behalf of Soviet Jews, recalled at a hearing Thursday that his jailers told him, “You are […]
Even after suffering shocks from a Taser gun, he refused to sign on the administrative order.
Defense lawyer claims teen terrorist should have been sent to a juvenile facility where he would have received treatment for a "compulsive interest in radical Islam."
A law school textbook classic example of a hate crime. In this Texas case, it was a white man "playing" the Knockout "Game" on a black victim.
On Wednesday, Dec. 25, a Turkish court rejected a claim for compensation from the state of Israel by the relatives of a man who died during the battle between Israeli soldiers and anti-Israel protesters who were attempting to breach the internationally-recognized legal blockade of Gaza. The family of Furkan Doğan, one of nine who died […]
German-American non-Jewish attorney Peter Sonnenthal and his family, which has Jewish roots (his grandmother was Jewish and perished in Auschwitz) have been fighting for more than two decades to reclaim lucrative properties stolen from them under the Nazi regime, Spiegel reported, adding that Sonnenthal continues to face legal hurdles in trying to restore this legacy. […]
One judge wondered how meat could be considered kosher, if the employees of the kosher slaughtering firm "just passed on the cows."
By JTA
A Russian court ordered the early release of a Jewish teacher whose bribery trial was marred by anti-Semitic statements and whose lengthy prison sentence was criticized by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Tver Regional Court last week reduced Ilya Farber’s sentence from seven years to three for accepting bribes and abusing his position while working […]
By JTA
A mother in Israel has appealed to the country’s Supreme Court a rabbinical court ruling requiring her to circumcise her son. In her appeal filed Wednesday, the mother said the rabbis cannot order her to circumcise her son, who is now a year old. The Jerusalem rabbinical court last month upheld the ruling of the […]
By Tibbi Singer
Mitchell was arrested on Dec. 4, after he was identified by four victims.
By JTA
Jacob Ostreicher, a New York businessman held in Bolivia since 2011, is back in the United States. Two Jewish news websites, JP Updates and Algemeiner, reported Monday that Ostreicher returned Sunday to New York, although the circumstances of his departure from Bolivia are not clear. Ostreicher, who had a flooring business in New York, invested […]
By JTA
Accused Nazi war criminal Hans Lipschis was released from custody in Germany after being diagnosed with dementia. The arrest warrant against Lipschis, 94, was canceled Friday due to a psychiatrist’s determination that the alleged former SS guard at Auschwitz was suffering from the early stages of the illness and therefore might not sufficiently understand and […]
By JTA
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of a Minnesota rabbi who claimed he was cut from an airline’s frequent flier program for earning too many miles. Oral arguments in the case of Rabbi Binyomin Ginsberg were heard on Tuesday. Ginsberg was one of Northwest Airlines’ top fliers when he was cut from […]
By David Morris
"The findings of the police investigation indicate serious criminal activity."
The group left Quebec for Ontario last week. They all left at once, in the middle of the night, in rented buses.
The Office of Civil Rights seems to have rolled back the recent extension of protection from anti-Jewish discrimination on campuses.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect who was killed by police, is suspected of participating in a triple homicide in Waltham, Mass. on Sept. 11, 2011. This is according to a filing made by federal prosecutors in the case against Tsarnaev's brother, the surviving bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Back in 2011, three men were […]
Yosef Kolko, 39, was sentenced late Thursday in Toms River, N.J. to close to 13 years, after the judge refused to let him take back a guilty plea to aggravated sexual assault which he had made in May, the AP reports. Kolko's victim, a 16-year-old boy who was 12 at the time the crime was […]
Anti-Israel, NIF-funded public relations hack convicted of extortion and rape of 15 yr old Haredi girl.
By JTA
A federal judge reprimanded an attorney working on behalf of jailed former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin. In a meeting Tuesday, U.S. District Chief Judge Linda Reade told the attorney that interviews of jurors in Rubashkin’s 2009 trial on bank fraud charges cannot be used for future appeals or other court proceedings, according to The Gazette, […]
"The accusation that I said I’m going to target the Jewish community is an outright lie."
“I pray that my family and friends and all who care about Met Council can find it in their heart to forgive me for my actions."
Unless an organization has political juice, neither the Democrats or the Republicans care when a group of Americans have had their constitutional rights violated by a U.S. government agency.
The D.C. applellate court declared unconstitutional the legislative effort by congress to force the US to recognize that Jerusalem is part of Israel. That they did so is not surprising, but why the Executive branch is so afraid of having Jerusalem next to Israel even just on a piece of paper should be shocking.
By JTA
The Ligue de Defense Juive (LDJ) is doing what Rabbi Kahane did in New York City more than 40 years ago – making antisemites think twice before attacking.
French media analyst Philippe Karsenty was been convicted of defamation by a Paris court, for accusing France-2, a state television network, of staging the infamous video depicting the alleged killing of a young Arab boy in a firefight between Arab terrorists and Israeli forces in Gaza in 2000. The footage 12 years ago became the […]
A brilliant new biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist.
After repeatedly denying it was targeting conservative groups for unfair treatment, the IRS admitted it was treating politically conservative groups in inappropriate ways.
Former Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon testified in court Thursday against his former boss, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who is on trial for allegedly trying to win an ambassadorial post for Ze’ev Ben Aryeh, who police say tipped off Lieberman about a police probe against him in Belarus. Ayalon was head of the Foreign Ministry […]
Rabbi Avraham Sherman could be charged with fraud, breach of trust, obstruction of justice, and abuse of office.
"Don't be angry, I touch and kiss you because I feel comfortable with you."
The trauma of being wrongfully convicted and incarcerated for 23 years had ruined Ranta's health.
By JTA
A women’s Megillah reading at the Western Wall took place on Shushan Purim without incident or arrests on Monday, the day after most of Israel and the rest of the Jewish world celebrated Purim. Approximately 80 women turned out, some donning prayer shawls, others dressed as police and Haredi Orthodox worshipers, on Monday morning in […]
By JTA
A British judge reportedly has accepted a U.S. rabbinical court’s ruling in a dispute between a haredi Orthodox man and his ex-wife.
By JTA
Satmar counselor Nechemya Weberman was sentenced to 103 years in prison for sexual abuse of a teenage female patient over several years.
By JTA
Leaders of Russia’s Jewish community have criticized a U.S. federal court ruling that fined Russia for refusing to hand over ancient Chasidic texts.
He soon realized that the plaintiff had taken advantage of him, spending the bulk of her time visiting relatives rather than with him.
Lower Court said he purchased "nonkosher" food items including cookies, soft drinks, coffee, tuna, and candy.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Waqf, a Jordanian Muslim religious body entrusted with the management of the Temple Mount, has been renovating the site for years.
After 10 years of marriage, with 2 children, the wife began an affair with her female boss.
Shouts and slurs erupted between Zoabi and MK Michael Ben-Ari of the new Otzma LeYisrael party and other nationalists who called her a terrorist and a traitor.
For the first time, the United States has extradited to Israel a suspect wanted for tax-related offenses.
MK Haneen Zoabi has been banned from running for the 19th Knesset by the Central Elections Committee, which censured her for supporting terrorism and for denying Israel’s identity as a Jewish and democratic state.
Yisrael Beytenu leader – and just-stepped-down Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman – is in legal limbo, with his anticipated indictment delayed at the last minute.
By David Wilder
For election purposes, the expulsion was scheduled for next April, because the PM fears losing even more votes to the right.
The mosque demolition followed a Regavim movement's appeal to the Supreme Court.
By JTA
The court killed a Polish government allowance for Jewish and Muslim slaghtering.
The Jerusalem District Court, in a landmark decision 10 years in the making, ruled on Sunday that the Palestinian Authority can be sued in Israeli court for damages suffered by an Israeli Arab tortured and kidnapped by their security forces on suspicion of spying for Israel, according to a report by The Times of Israel.
Federal prosecutors and pro-Israel Republican stalwart Sheldon Adelson’s casino company Las Vegas Sands Corp. may have come to an understanding on issues pertaining to money-laundering laws allegedly violated in the cases of two criminal high-rollers, the Wall Street Journal reports.
A $1 billion lawsuit filed in New York State court against the Bank of China alleges that it "intentionally and recklessly" provided services to terrorist groups.
By Tibbi Singer
She caught him "red-handed," and immediately filed a divorce case with the chief rabbinate, except he is refusing to divorce her.
By JTA
Israel's state prosecutor will appeal the acquittals of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in two of three cases decided earlier this year.
Ami Popper, a Haredi prisoner in jail for committing acts of terrorism against Arabs, was transferred from the religious-Jewish section in Maasiyahu prison for harassing prisoner Moshe Katzav, former president of Israel.
By Shalom Bear
In a quiet revolution, women have begun to outnumber men in the Israeli legal profession, and while, for the moment, there are still more active lawyers who are men (28,231) than women (22,670), that gap is quickly closing.
By JTA
Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, has ordered authorities to allow the Jewish owners of a building in Hebron to move into it.
Another participant in the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany scandal has admitted her role in that $57 million scheme to approve nearly 5,000 fraudulent applications, resulting in pay-outs to applicants who did not qualify for the programs.
By JTA
The United States is imposing financial penalties on two Lebanese charities that raise money for Hamas.
These new regulations were announced on Thursday, just three days after the American Freedom Defense Initiative ads were put up with court approval.
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert told a press conference Monday that he leaves court “standing tall” after being handed a one year suspended sentence and a fine of NIS 75,300 for breaching the public trust in what has been called the “Investment Center Affair”.
By David Wilder, Tazpit News Agency
The Arab who sold the building, Mr. Rajabi, claimed that we had stolen his property.